{"id":3564,"date":"2013-01-18T12:49:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgilliam.wordpress.com\/?p=3564"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:25:57","slug":"the-condition-of-the-vineyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/?p=3564","title":{"rendered":"The Condition Of The Vineyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Isaiah 5:1-5 and\u00a0the theme of<strong><em> Isaiah&#8217;s Christ<\/em><\/strong>. We&#8217;re looking today at <strong><em>the sifting Christ and the condition of the vineyard.<\/em><\/strong> We have found the vineyard to be the church within the church. I see in our text today the\u00a0vineyard has been <strong><em>designed for success<\/em><\/strong>. In verse one it was designed as a fruitful hill which is a term of reproduction. In verse two it was\u00a0fenced in\u00a0which was a hedge of protection. I see also in verse two the stones were removed which are those things that\u00a0 would hinder its\u00a0growth. In verse two it was planted with the most choice\u00a0vines chosen by the vineyard owner. There was a tower and a winepress in the middle such a picture of the crucified Christ. The church within the church of today has been designed for success. Are we accomplishing what we were designed to do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us muse again today from Isaiah 5:1-5 and\u00a0the theme of Isaiah&#8217;s Christ. We&#8217;re looking today at the sifting Christ and the condition of the vineyard. We have found the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-musings-from-the-motel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3564"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3564\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgilliam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}